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Mobile Cosmetics Advisor: An Imaging Based Mobile Service

Sabine Süsstrunk, Joanna Marguier

Selecting cosmetics requires visual information and often benefits from the assessments of a cosmetics expert. In this paper we present a unique mobile imaging application that enables women to use their cell phones to get immediate expert advice when sele ...

2010

By their apps you shall understand them: mining large-scale patterns of mobile phone usage

Daniel Gatica-Perez

Mobile phones are becoming more and more widely used nowadays, and people do not use the phone only for communication: there is a wide variety of phone applications allowing users to select those that fit their needs. Aggregated over time, application usag ...

2010

Towards better entity resolution techniques for Web document collections

Karl Aberer, Zoltán Miklós, Surender Reddy Yerva

As person names are non-unique, the same name on different Web pages might or might not refer to the same real-world person. This entity identification problem is one of the most challenging issues in realizing the Semantic Web or entity-oriented search. W ...

1st International Workshop on Data Engineering meets the Semantic Web (DESWeb'2010) (co-located with ICDE'2010)2010

Towards better entity resolution techniques for Web document collections

Karl Aberer, Zoltán Miklós, Surender Reddy Yerva

IEEE2010

Image-Based Mobile Service: Automatic Text Extraction and Translation

Jérôme Berclaz

We present a new mobile service for the translation of text from images taken by consumer-grade cell-phone cameras. Such capability represents a new paradigm for users where a simple image provides the basis for a service. The ubiquity and ease of use of c ...

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers2010

Designable Visual Markers

Jeffrey Huang, Enrico Costanza

Visual markers are graphic symbols designed to be easily recognised by machines. They are traditionally used to,track goods, but there is increasing interest in their application to mobile HCI. By scanning a visual marker through a camera phone, users can ...

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Understanding the Web

Eda Baykan

The World Wide Web is one of the most widely used information resources. Understanding the web better will enable us to benefit more of it. In this thesis we develop techniques to learn the properties of the web pages like language and topic using only the ...

EPFL2009

Purely URL-based Topic Classification

Monika Henzinger, Ingmar Weber, Eda Baykan, Ludmila Marian

Given only the URL of a web page, can we identify its topic? This is the question that we examine in this paper. Usually, web pages are classified using their content, but a URL-only classifier is preferable, (i) when speed is crucial, (ii) to enable conte ...

2009

A Comparison of Techniques for Sampling Web Pages

Monika Henzinger, Eda Baykan

As the World Wide Web is growing rapidly, it is getting increasingly challenging to gather representative information about it. Instead of crawling the web exhaustively one has to resort to other techniques like sampling to determine the properties of the ...

2009

Automatic Temporal Alignment of AV Data

Philip Neil Garner, John David Scott Dines, Danil Korchagin

In this paper, we describe the automatic audio-based temporal alignment of audio-visual data, recorded by different cameras, camcorders or mobile phones during social events like high school concerts. All recorded data is temporally aligned with a common m ...

Idiap2009